Thursday THREATCON – 24 March 2016

It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to Barack and Michelle Obama’s tango dancing, our Threatcon Color Code is ARGENTINA BLUE

Did you know that the venue for the Republican National Convention in Cleveland is an unconstitutional, un-American ‘gun free zone’? Here’s a petition to force the Quicken Loans Arena to allow open carry of firearms. With Donald Trump expressing hope for “riots” on the convention floor, It’s important that the GOP shows it can be consistent about those ‘Second Amendment remedies’ and embrace the freedoms it has so bravely defended

From now on, this audio of Alabama’s ‘family values’ governor talking to his adviser/mistress about how much he enjoys touching her breasts will be my standard reply to the state’s right wing culture warriors whenever they splutter about morality and ‘biblical principles in governing’

The Alabama Senate has passed a bill which would take the state out of the marriage license business altogether, reduce funds allocated for preventing domestic violence, and require every couple to negotiate their own contract — all so that county clerks won’t have to sell marriage licenses to icky gay and lesbian couples

Responding to Charlotte’s nondiscrimination law, which had drawn protests from anti-gay evangelical groups because of its provisions allowing trans people to use the restroom of the gender with which they identify, Republican legislators in North Carolina moved quickly to call a special session of the legislature and pass a bill voiding all local nondiscrimination ordinances. Let’s see if they move this fast the next time the state faces a fiscal crisis

American basij: self-appointed Christian morality police have taken it upon themselves to protest a swinger’s club in Amarillo, TX, try to get the customers fired, and destroy their reputations “for Jesus”

The Florida legislature has passed a bill to replace Planned Parenthood family planning clinics with a list of facilities that aren’t equipped for pap smears, cancer screenings, STD testing or treatment, etc. In order to access contraception, women are now apparently supposed to visit local schools, dental offices, Salvation Army depots, a Holland Cruise Lines location, pediatricians, and podiatrists

The Oregon state DOJ investigation of Grant County, Oregon Sheriff Glenn Palmer has expanded to cover questions about his activities before the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge takeover, such as his hiring of 70 “special deputies”

The Bundy agenda continues in Congress: Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has pushed a bill that would transfer law enforcement power from federal land management agencies to local powers that lack the knowledge or ability to enforce them — in other words, to people like Glenn Palmer